"The Multi-Color Train" - the inspiration for the Ho Chi Minh City Orchid Festival 2025

The 3rd Ho Chi Minh City Orchid Festival - 2025 will take place for 5 days, from May 16-20, at Tao Dan Park. The festival is an opportunity to connect culture, tourism with urban agricultural development, creating an ideal and attractive tourist destination when coming to Ho Chi Minh City.

The 3rd Ho Chi Minh City Orchid Festival - 2025, continues to spread and become an important practical activity in the series of activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025), the 135th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19, 1890 - May 19, 2025). At the same time, honoring the orchid brand and ornamental flower products as key products of the agricultural sector of Ho Chi Minh City and provinces and cities in the regions that have signed cooperation agreements on socio-economic development with Ho Chi Minh City. Connecting culture, tourism with urban agricultural development creates an ideal destination, an attractive tourist destination when coming to the City.

Landscape decoration for the 3rd Ho Chi Minh City Orchid Festival

The Festival is an opportunity to affirm the role of Ho Chi Minh City as an effective bridge, an important trade promotion channel in the development of agricultural economy of regions across the country. Sharing technologies, applying science and technology to develop orchids and ornamental plants. Creating a bridge between the state - farmers and consumers in the agricultural sector towards the goal of building "civilized farmers - ecological agriculture - modern countryside".

The Opening Ceremony took place at 8:00 a.m. on May 16 at Tao Dan Park - Truong Dinh Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, with the participation of about 500 delegates.

Attending the Festival, visitors will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition space, display large landscapes, small landscapes and small landscapes of buffer spaces, including: Welcome Gate (Truong Dinh and Nguyen Thi Minh Khai streets), Large landscape of the North-South train and Metro, Large landscape of the City with 50 flower seasons (representing the Southeast region, Ho Chi Minh City), Large landscape of Green mountains and blue water (representing the Northern region), Large landscape of poetic beauty (representing the Central Coast region), Large landscape of the Breath of the Great Forest (representing the Central Highlands region), Large landscape of charming rivers and streams (representing the Southwest region), Large landscape of the Green City - Future City (representing Ho Chi Minh City) and small landscapes of buffer spaces.

Space for promoting city tourism; Space for orchid and ornamental plant landscapes introducing local culture; Area for introducing orchid and ornamental plant varieties and hybridization methods; Space for nightly cultural and artistic activities.

Within the framework of the activities at the Festival, there is also the presence of the International Cooperation and Regional Connection Space (the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Thailand and Lam Dong province participate in the Orchid Landscape Space, the Opening Ceremony has the participation of a number of countries such as China, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia); Exhibition and performance space of art works; Area for introducing and promoting flowers and OCOP products; Space for introducing regional culinary culture. Orchid Competition, Orchid Workshop with the theme: "Application of high technology in the production of orchid varieties and ornamental plants in Ho Chi Minh City and other provinces/cities".

This year's Ho Chi Minh City Orchid Festival has many new features compared to the previous two times, with the theme "Multi-colored Train" designed with inspiration from the two Thong Nhat trains departing at the same time, on the same day, December 31, 1976 at Hanoi and Saigon stations, opening the North-South railway line carrying the desire for peace, healing and reunion. The image of the North-South train attached to the Metro will be the main axis leading to special Train Stations connecting the past - present - future. Where visitors can experience the unique features of each region, the beauty of orchids from all over the country; at the same time, the design also carries the message of a Green City - Future City aiming for the goal of Net Zero to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the quality of life for people, enhance public health and protect the environment.

With large and small landscapes showing the unique features of regions and the beauty of orchids from all over the country, the Festival attracted more than 200 units including cooperatives, gardeners, and artisans to participate in the exhibition, introduce orchids and orchid competitions. The total number of orchids participating in the exhibition in the miniature landscapes of all categories is 39,000 products, an increase of 35% compared to the 2nd Orchid Festival. Of which, units in Ho Chi Minh City provided 34,000 products, accounting for 87%, the remaining orchids were from the provinces: Lam Dong, Dak Lak... Re-enacting the work Hon Viet which won the Silver Prize at the Taiwan International Orchid Exhibition - TIOS 2025; Workshop program with contents such as instructions on flower dyeing, vase arrangement, spray painting techniques on Phalaenopsis orchids, demonstration of European-style flower art works, growing Phalaenopsis orchids on driftwood...

In addition, the Organizing Committee also arranged many spaces for introduction and promotion to serve the city's residents and tourists such as: Space for promoting city tourism; Space for miniature orchids and ornamental plants to introduce the typical culture of Thu Duc city, Cu Chi district, Nha Be district; Space for exhibition and performance of art works; Space for introducing regional culinary culture; Nightly cultural and artistic activities...

Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/chuyen-tau-da-sac-nguon-cam-hung-cho-festival-hoa-lan-tp-ho-chi-minh-nam-2025-20250508173232101.htm